Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 The notion of anaphora
1.2 A brief survey of literature
1.2.1 The formal syntactic approach
1.2.2 Discourse functional approach
1.2.3 "Pure" cognitive approach
1.2.4 Basic assumptions and methodology
1.3 Organization of the thesis
Chapter 2 The Functional-pragmatic Model
2.1 Preliminaries
2.2 Accessibility
2.2.1 The notion of accessibility
2.2.2 Theoretical foundations of the accessibility theory
2.2.3 Referring expressions and their accessibility
2.3 Topicality
2.3.1 The notion of topicality
2.3.2 Two pragmatic properties of topic
2.4 Principles of the FP model
2.4.1 The mental nature of anaphora resolution
2.4.2 The process of anaphora resolution
2.4.3 Basic notions and principles of the FP model
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Anaphora in English Discourse
3.1 Preliminaries
3.2 Topic management in English discourse
3.2.1 Topic introduction
3.2.2 Topic management and shift
3.2.3 Topic combination and topic separation
3.3 High accessibility markers
3.3.1 Pronouns
3.3.2 Zeros
3.3.3 Reflexives
3.4 Intermediate accessibility markers
3.5 Low accessibility markers
3.5 1 LAMs referring to an entity in the same sentence
3.5.2 LAMs referring to an entity in the previous sentence
3.6 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Anaphora in English Sentences
4.1 Preliminaries
4.2 Anaphora in English sentences
4.2.1 Anaphora in simple sentences
4.2.2 Anaphora in compound sentences
4.2.3 Anaphora in complex sentences
4.2.4 Anaphora in pregnant sentences
4.3 Summary
Chapter 5 Conclusion
English Folktales
Data
Reference